The Trail Blazers' victory continues.

After unexpectedly easily beating the Rockets and winning another matchup with Olajuwon, the Trail Blazers' next opponent is the Golden State Warriors, Ralph Sampson, who was once a member of the Rockets' twin towers, still sits on the bench as in the preseason, watching his past opponent Gan Guoyang take what he wants from the Warriors, and he can only look helpless.

The Trail Blazers, who had played poorly before, finally recovered from this game, and once again played a wonderful fast offense, coupled with Gan Guoyang's personal ability, the Warriors only resisted for three quarters before surrendering.

Since the start of the season, there have been many teams that have surrendered their guns after only three quarters.

Sabonis got plenty of playing time in the fourth quarter, and Adelman wanted to try his hand at combining Sabonis and Buck Williams.

Unlike Gan Guoyang and Sabonis, Buck Williams does not have the offensive ability of Gan Guoyang, and uses air cuts to rush to the basket, and Sabonis tears apart the opponent's defense through penetrating passes over the top.

At the same time, Sabonis has also been given more opportunities to attack on his own to show off his range from the three-point line, but he is still more cautious on the court and rarely takes shots unless he is very sure.

With this win, the Trail Blazers are on an 11-game winning streak and are on an unbeaten streak since the start of the season.

However, after the end of this game with the Warriors, the Trail Blazers will start a long road trip in the East, and they will play six consecutive away games in the Eastern Conference, which will be a huge test for the Trail Blazers' physiology and psychology, and whether they can continue their winning streak has become a hot topic in the NBA.

In the first game of the Eastern Conference tour, the Trail Blazers are going to play to the iron plate, and their opponent is the old nemesis, the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Milwaukee Bucks have been the second in the East for a thousand years, and since the early eighties, the East boss has changed one after another, and he is very stable, but by the end of the eighties, the Bucks have begun to show fatigue.

After being eliminated by the Celtics in the 1986 season, the Bucks made a big deal in the offseason, trading two draft picks and center Lister from the SuperSonics to center Jack Sikma.

Then, the Bucks began hoarding long-term men on the inside, including seven-foot-three Randy Brewer, seven-foot-one "human eraser" Marvin Webster, seven-foot-one Paul Moksky, plus six-foot-eleven Jack Sikma, and the Bucks hoarded so many long-term men just to deal with the Celtics' strong frontcourt.

But it was Moncliffe, who was injured in the 1986 playoffs, that was the soul of the resilient Bucks, and after the injury that year, Moncliffe never fully recovered from the injury.

In the 1987 playoffs, they comfortably defeated the 76ers in the first round, nailing the coffin lid to Dr. J. Irving's career.

Then they met the Celtics again in the semifinals, with the Celtics with Len Baias having a full lineup, while the Bucks were riddled with injuries, and they stubbornly persevered for six games before being eliminated 2-4.

The bucks seem destined to never be able to cross another big mountain to the east.

In '88, the injury-ridden Bucks failed to make it past the first round and died under the claws of the Eagles.

This season, the Bucks have finally started a full-blown decline, with Moncliffe and Terry Cummins both starting to age, and Jake Sikma is not a superstar who can hold up the entire team, with the team going 6-5 in the first 11 games and only finishing fourth in the Central Division.

However, the Bucks have always maintained an advantage over the Trail Blazers in the past few seasons, and the Trail Blazers, who are good at fast break, will be deflated on the offensive end every time they encounter the Bucks, and the Bucks Giant's forest-like interior line is obvious to Gan Guoyang's restraint, not to mention that they also have Jack Sikma, who can often embarrass Gan Guoyang when he is supersound.

It is precisely because the bones are hard to gnaw that before the game, the Trail Blazers players began to discuss and prepare how to deal with the Bucks.

"I scored 40 points, Clyde scored 30 points, Terry scored 20 points, Jerome scored 15 points, Barker scored 15 points, and then the rest of the bench got 20 points, adding up...... 140 points! I don't think the Bucks will be able to score 140 points, so they're going to lose. Gan Guoyang was the first to express his "opinion".

As soon as Gan Guoyang said this, everyone else laughed, knowing that this guy began to make fun of everyone again.

"Hey Gan, why do you get 40 points and I get 30 points? I feel like I can get 40 points, just give me 30 shots. Drexler said with a smile.

In the game against the SuperSonics, Gan Guoyang made 31 shots in the whole game, but at the summary meeting in the locker room after the game, Adelman believed that it was abnormal behavior and unreasonable for an inside line to shoot so many times.

Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't care about this, he also knew that Adelman said this purely to respond to himself, who made Gan Guoyang usually like Diaphragm Adelman?

Now that Drexler has taken another 30 shots, Gan Guoyang immediately counterattacked: "Come on, Clyde, you haven't scored 30 points in a game against the Bucks!" ”

The Trail Blazers and Bucks score a lot less points per game than they averaged every game, and Drexler had to play again against the Bucks' best defensive player, Moncliffe, in games.

For example, in the first game against the Bucks last season, the Trail Blazers also lost the game, Drexler scored 21 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, but shot 6 of 19 from the field, and the shooting rate was only a pitiful 30%.

This is still the performance of Moncliffe who has only played a dozen minutes with an injury, and if the best defensive player plays the whole game, Drexler will only be afraid that the performance will be even worse.

Seeing that he was about to be turned over by Gan Guoyang, Drexler hurriedly snorted and fooled him.

Adelman watched his players "discuss" there, he didn't have the time to mix, he had more important issues to solve.

Years of teaching assistant and learning from Jack Ramsey have given Adelman the basic mindset of a coach.

The regular season is long, 82 games, and if every game is changed and arranged according to the opponent's situation, then the player's ability to adjust will be against the sky.

The best way to do this is to develop a stable and efficient routine for your team, and then make appropriate fine-tuning for different opponents, and this fine-tuning can also be done step by step.

Especially for a strong team like the Trail Blazers, it is necessary to "focus on me", and it is best not to make changes themselves, but let the opponent make adjustments, once the adjustment is unfavorable, the Trail Blazers will have a chance.

Now, the Trail Blazers have a neat lineup, a deep bench, and a stable and strong core, while the Bucks are aging and seriously injured, and the core players have never recovered from major injuries, and the gap in strength between the two sides is obvious.

Adelman's main concern at the moment is the issue of the bench at the small forward position.

After Vanderwicki's departure and Cossey's arrival, the Trail Blazers' years of poor wing defense were finally fundamentally resolved, but they did not have a consistent bench on the wing.

Jim Paxson is getting older, he can provide scoring and passing on the offensive end, but he's a further scumbag on the defensive end, and he's a shooting guard.

The rest of the wing is Andre Brans, a 1985 second-round pick who was drafted by the Bulls, then traded to the Lakers, then to the Nets, and finally to the Trail Blazers as a trade add.

A down-and-out, tossed-around homeless player, it seems that Adelman is not ready to count on him at the moment.

At the same time, the interior of the Trail Blazers is a little saturated, Sabonis, Duckworth two big centers in the center position obviously overlapped, at present, Sabonis is better, the potential is greater, and even the whole team has a qualitative improvement, Adelman is also gradually increasing Sabonis's playing time.

At the same time, with Steve Johnson and Richard Anderson on the bench, the Trail Blazers' frontcourt strength has exploded.

As can be seen from the game against the Lakers and Rockets, when Sabonis is on the court, the bonus to Gan Guoyang is obvious, but the aggressiveness on the defensive end has declined slightly, and the ability to defend against fast offense will also decrease.

Moreover, Sabonis is not very well controlled for fouls and is too prone to foul trouble.

So Adelman was hesitating, hesitating what was the best option.

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The game against the Bucks was played at Bradley Center on the evening of the 29th, in Milwaukee in the north, which was at its coldest time, far from the ocean, the climate was far less warm than Portland, and the enthusiasm of the fans gradually waned as the Bucks weakened.

However, many times Gan Guoyang likes to come to Milwaukee to play, because in such a cold small city, you can stay in the hotel before and after the game, instead of going out to drink and have fun with your teammates.

Tonight, Gan Guoyang was in no mood to talk to Wang Fuxi on the phone, and the game at the Bradley Center was expected to be difficult.

Bucks power forward Terry Cummins was in a big swing tonight, and Buck Williams was suppressed by Cummins in a one-on-one matchup, with Cummins scoring 30 points in the game.

And Monccliffe, who had been plagued by injuries before, seemed to have begun to return to the light, beating Drexler to the ground on both offensive and defensive ends, scoring 23 points on offense, and once again defending Drexler to a 30 percent shooting rate, and Drexler only scored 11 points.

The two sides battled until the fourth quarter, and Adelman finally made an important change, replacing Buck Williams with Sabonis, and letting Gan Guoyang play power forward against Cummins.

This change finally gave the Trail Blazers an advantage, Gan Guoyang, Sabonis and Jerome Cosey, who played well in this game, formed an offensive and defensive iron triangle, and a wave of 10-0 climax established an advantage, and the Bucks never turned around.

The Trail Blazers eventually beat the Bucks by seven points on the road, Gan Guoyang played 44 minutes, scored 30 points and 11 rebounds, but under the siege of the Bucks Giants Forest, he hit only 10 of 26 shots and relied on free throws to score 30 points.

After returning to the hotel, Gan Guoyang felt a little tired, and after 12 consecutive wins, he could finally rest again.

Soon, the phone in the hotel rang, it was the front desk who turned it, and someone was looking for him.

"Is it Fuxi?" Gan Guoyang thought to himself.

But it was David Stern's voice on the phone.